Today's Main Story: Terry Shaff, President of Unisea, passes away suddenly  Terry Shaff, President of Unisea, died Friday evening at the age 67 after a short illness. Shaff was named Unisea’s president in 1998 after company founder Dick Pace retired; he was the company’s second president. Under Shaff, Unisea became one of the largest seafood processors in the US. Shaff has also been at various times President of ASMI and he was also the longest serving Chairman of the Pacific Seafood Processors Association in the 100 year history of that organization. A transition plan, which named current executive vice president Tom Enlow as Shaff’s successor, was put into place last year for when Terry would retire. However, Shaff's retirement was not expected for a few more years. A formal announcement on Shaff’s passing is expected from Unisea at a later date. “His passing was unexpected and threw the entire Unisea community, and the Alaska Seafood industry, into a state of shocked sadness” said John Sackton. Darden’s Malaysian-based lobster aquaculture project has successfully hatched the industry’s first-ever commercially viable spiny lobsters in Sabah. "Only a handful of people in the world have the knowledge and technology to successfully culture the critical 11 stages and undergo metamorphosis from larvae form to juvenile lobster,” said Lobster Aqua Technologies Sdn Bhd president and chief executive officer Dr Shahridan Faiez Sunday. In other news, Sea Fare Exposition’s China Fisheries & Seafood Expo, which was held in Qingdao last week, saw the number of exhibitors and attendees grow over 20 percent from last year. According to the convention’s officials, the exhibit hall filled over 25,000 square meters of space and hosted about 27,000 visitors. This growth puts the Expo on pace to pass Diversified’s Brussels show as the largest seafood trade event in the world. Finally, ICCAT will increase tuna fishing quotas in the Mediterranean and Atlantic by 20 percent in each of the next two years. The Commission’s scientific committee said a ‘gradual and moderate increase’ in catches would not jeopardize the stock health, an opinion that was not entirely supported by several commission members and the WWF. “It’s hard to apply the term ‘moderate’ to an annual increase of 20% over 3 years. We are concerned that the huge conservation efforts of the last years might quickly fade away,” said Dr. Sergi Tudela, Head of Fisheries Program at WWF Mediterranean.